Chapter 47
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 47
Chapter Title: Omer Ashk
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‘B’ and Omer’s hideout.
The corpses of the pirates who had once owned the hideout were piled up next to the entrance.
Omer leaned against the entrance, continuously vomiting blood-mixed bile.
“Kuuek! Kuheok!”
His hair had fallen out in clumps, and half his face had turned into raw flesh. There was no trace of his former appearance.
It was the side effect of consuming hundreds of Flesh Mending Flowers at once.
“‘B’, where the hell is that bastard?”
‘B’, who had been guarding the hideout, was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, rage toward him surged up inside Omer.
‘It was all because of that bastard from the start. If he hadn’t kept yapping about how we had to catch Ju Gonghyeok, it wouldn’t have come to this...’
Catching Ju Gonghyeok was impossible.
That guy was from a different world, a different level from the other hunters here.
If they were lab rats in an experiment, that madman was the deranged researcher toying with them purely for fun.
‘I shouldn’t have listened to that psychopath bastard.’
He had gone too far by following the ravings of B, who was clearly lost in his own delusions.
Titles like Laplace’s Mad Dog, the most terrifying murderer—they had shaken him without him even realizing it.
‘Forget all that. I need to get out of here as fast as possible. If I take the pirate ship up to the 4th floor...’
His thoughts stopped there.
Agony crashed over him as the flesh around his eyes bubbled up, and vomit rose unbidden.
“Guueeek!”
Omer hadn’t noticed his sense of time melting away, but three days had passed since he fled from Gonghyeok.
And the side effects of the Flesh Mending Flower were not improving—they were only getting worse.
He didn’t want to die like this.
For once, his mind raced at full speed to survive.
And then, a flash of insight in his brain.
How to fix the Flesh Mending Flower’s side effects?
Absorb the avatar that created the Flesh Mending Flower?
“Yeah. That’s it.”
Omer dragged his vomit-soaked body toward the iron cage where Ha Yeonsi was imprisoned.
There was no other solution anyway.
B’s bullshit about not touching her had flown out of his head.
He had no intention of ever seeing that lunatic again.
Finally reaching the cage, he looked at Ha Yeonsi beyond the bars.
Bang!
Omer shook the bars and shouted.
“Where are you looking, you damn bitch! This is all because of you—my body’s like this!”
When Yeonsi didn’t even glance his way, he flew into an even greater frenzy.
“Hand over the avatar! Fix my body! I’m Omer. Omer Ashk!
Ruler of the New World! Omniscient and omnipotent! The great Omer Ashk—aaaaah!”
[Maik Transformation - Black Sword (B-)]
He wildly swung his wings, and the iron bars snapped and fell away.
Panting with excitement, he entered the prison.
“Turn me back to normal! It’s all your fault! If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have ended up like this! Without your flower, the south wouldn’t have grown so big! I wouldn’t have gotten greedy! I wouldn’t have had to lock you up! And! And...”
Whether reacting to his meaningless, irrational howling, she slowly raised her head.
And looked toward the monster with bat wings bulging like mushrooms.
“Ah. Oppa’s here?”
“You fucking bitch, there’s no oppa here—!”
“Yeah. You’re here.”
!?
Omer’s boiling head cooled in an instant.
His frenzied body froze like a statue, refusing to budge.
A chilling sneer came from behind.
“Hey. Won’t you turn around?”
Crack.
A mysterious leg clad in iron shin guards axed down beside Omer’s knee.
Tough ligaments snapped, and muscles tore open on the opposite side like a blooming red flower.
“Huaaak!”
Omer clutched his grotesquely bent knee and rolled to the side.
‘What the hell is going on? Why is that monster bastard here? When did he come? How?’
A panic of thoughts exploded in Omer’s head.
But when he looked back at the one who had shattered his knee, the most fundamental question pierced his mind.
“You, who the hell are you!”
Behind him was not the monster he expected, ‘Ju Gonghyeok’.
Only a mysterious figure in a mask and hood stood there.
The incomprehensible facts overwhelmed his brain’s processing capacity.
If his brain accomplished one thing amid the chaos.
It was remembering one famous murderer.
“X! You’re that murderer ‘X’?”
“Yeah. Yeah. It’s Mr. X.”
Omer felt an eerie sense of familiarity.
This attitude, this voice—it felt like he’d heard it somewhere...
Ha Yeonsi shrank back bashfully.
“Oppa, sorry, but don’t look this way.”
‘Oppa?’
As far as he knew, there was only one person Ha Yeonsi called oppa.
She’d recently been unable to tell people apart, but now with her eyes wide open and sane, if her words weren’t wrong.
The conclusion hit, and Omer’s sharp wing blade shot toward Ha Yeonsi’s throat.
[Maik Transformation - Black Sword (B+)]
[Maik Transformation - Axe Blade (C)]
The blade extending from Omer’s right wing was blocked by the wing protruding from Gonghyeok’s left shoulder.
“Bro. Mind not groping my girl anymore?”
Omer ground his teeth.
“Ju Gonghyeok, you pinned all your shit on me...”
“So what?”
Gonghyeok’s spiked knuckle embedded into Omer’s balloon-swollen cheek.
Liang Family Five Elements Extreme: Explosive Fist
“What’re you gonna do about it?”
CRITICAL HIT!!!
Blood sprayed alongside flames from his cheek.
“This one’s for Yeonsi.”
Fire generates Earth.
A true step shook the ground, followed by a brutal knee strike crushing Omer’s abs.
“This one’s for Yeonsi too.”
Earth generates Metal.
As Omer spewed blood, an elbow dropped like lightning onto his round head.
The skull-cracking sound echoed through the prison.
“And this one’s for Yeonsi.”
Metal generates Water.
Grabbing both shoulders and circling behind.
Twisting the waist snapped the spine in a series of bursts.
“Finally, this one’s for Yeonsi.”
Water generates Wood.
A rigid hand blade tore out Omer’s throat.
Blood pooled and writhed on the floor.
Completely knocked down.
Stepping on the half-corpse Omer and looking up, Ha Yeonsi flinched.
It was retribution against her tormentor.
But the instant violence and bloodshed before her fragile mind was enough to make her tremble.
“Hmm. Should I hit him one more time?”
“No, I’m okay now.”
“Yeah?”
Gonghyeok dragged Omer by the leg to Ha Yeonsi.
“Yeonsi. The ones who tormented you. Should I kill them all?”
“...”
“I can do it. As much as you want.”
“No. It’s okay. I don’t need that anymore. Now... just with oppa, just...”
“Yeah?”
Gonghyeok lightly cut her off.
And pointed downward with his thumb.
At Omer’s crotch, beginning to bubble and regenerate.
“Then kill him.”
“Ah...”
Gonghyeok mouthed silently.
Kill him.
In the silent space, only the sound of Omer’s blood-frothed bubbling could be heard.
“I told you to engrave it: In Babel, there’s no good or evil—only choice.”
“...”
“Don’t judge good and evil. Now’s the time for choice.”
Her lips moved again.
Kill him.
“Babel is, if you don’t kill, you die. And if you don’t change...”
You die.
“Hnng...”
Whispering into her ear as she began to sob.
“Make excuses if you want. Kill for me. I’ve already killed quite a lot for you.”
“For oppa?”
“Yeah. For me. And...”
He revealed a secret only Gonghyeok now knew.
“You actually killed one on the 2nd floor, right?”
Ha Yeonsi’s body shuddered.
“I love you, Yeonsi. So kill for me. Live for me.”
“For oppa?”
“Yeah, for me.”
Gonghyeok took her left hand and brought it to Omer.
“You wanted to kill him, right? How many times in your dreams?”
“Ah, after 50, I stopped counting.”
“Right. After 10, even I got lazy counting.”
“What’s that? Pfft.”
“Kill while laughing? Not bad, but grab your emotions more seriously.
As much as you wanted to kill him. Then...”
Yeonsi’s black pearl eyes cracked audibly.
A strange light gathered at her fingertips.
“Your beautiful power will grieve as much as you.”
Omer’s form changed.
His shattered skull knitted back, bleeding stopped.
Muscles returned to place, snapped ligaments tautened again.
His lumpy, tumor-ridden body reverted, and Omer’s expression visibly relaxed.
And then.
His eyeball swelled, protruding from the socket.
Tongue and organs bloated, his whole body turning balloon-like.
Soon, flesh endlessly multiplied, losing human shape.
The shriveled brain was crushed and vanished by the mass.
What remained was flesh stripped of humanity.
“Qweeeek! Qweeek!”
A monster reminiscent of the eighth destroyed world.
“Ah...”
“Good job. That’s how it’s done.”
Yeonsi kept stroking the back of her hand, as if it lacked reality.
“I, I didn’t want to die yet.”
Because there were too many things I wanted to do for oppa.
Yeonsi quietly swallowed the words.
“Yeah, Yeonsi.”
Gonghyeok stroked her head.
‘If you don’t kill, you die. Someday if you want to live, kill me for sure.’
Because I’ll definitely kill you.
Repeating that inwardly, Gonghyeok punched a hole in the flesh mass’s side.
Coins poured out.
[Purple coins 6,295 acquired. Indigo coins 3 acquired]
[Contract item - Essence of Black Magic Power 1, Blazing Right Wing (S-) acquired]
[The contract with Lilianne proves you are a devil’s minion]
[Your contract rank is Stage 0 provisional contract. Cannot inherit contract power.
The black magic power essence granting strength scatters into the air]
[Acquired Blazing Right Wing (S-).
Recognizes that the Blazing Right Wing and the withered left wing were originally one being]
[Synthesize the two items? Y/N]
“YES.”
[Synthesized both wings into one item.
Evolves to original form
‘Fallen Lucifer’s Wings (SS-)’
- Form of 2 out of the original 6 wings combined.
- Cannot be destroyed or damaged by normal attacks.
- Item unique skills: Maik Transformation (A), High-Speed Flight (A-), Single Strike Maik (A+), Annihilation Maik (A+) usable.
- All demon race skills + rank correction.
- All spirit race, magic beast race monsters revere you.
- All magic beast race monsters revere you.
- Boss monsters can resist this]
“Qweek! Qweek!”
Somehow it seemed to beg not to take them.
But the guy had always been greedy beyond his station, so even what he didn’t have felt worth taking.
Kicking away the clinging mass far off, the GM’s warning rang.
- Unidentified individual approaching this location currently.
“No, aaah!”
A voice brimming with joy for some reason.
Turning that way, one man stood there.
Omer’s comrade, the pirate leader with the greatest presence on the uninhabited island.
The unidentified ‘B’.
“He alternated his gaze between the mass of flesh, Omer, and ‘X,’ then clasped his hands in deep emotion.”
“Mr. Omer Ashk! I heard the assassination failed, so seeing you safe like this is truly fortunate.
I was about to carry out the Ju Gonghyeok assassination alone. It was just my needless worry.”
‘B’ trotted right up to ‘X’.
“As expected of Laplace’s Mad Dog who sees through everything! Even failure was just part of your plan. So, what’s your real scheme? I’ll follow your words.”
Gonghyeok scratched his head.
“Turn around first.”
“Yes!”
The moment ‘B’ happily turned.
Gonghyeok’s hand moved stealthily.
Grabbing the hilt of A-rank item ‘Crimson Mist Magic Sword’ from his inventory, mana circulated through his body.
Liang Family Five Elements Extreme: Thunderbolt Sword
Serpent God Art: Hidden Kill - Straight to Blood Serpent
“Huh?”
The sword had already sliced horizontally through ‘B’’s spine.
The blade exited to the right, spilling entrails from the wound as he toppled forward.